A little over a week ago, I overhauled my home studio. It was time to make some changes to get a solid, dependable sound out of my equipment, and to make best use out of the space I have. That space is our walk-in master closet. Thankfully, I’m not a shoe-a-holic or hoarder, and there’s actually enough space in there to setup my soundproofing panels, a chair (for audiobook projects), a small folding table and of course, my mic stand. After some tweaking, I’m incredibly happy with the sound coming out of there. I moved from Adobe Audition on a Delta44 audio card with a breakout box in a PC to Pro-Tools 8 on my macbook pro via my new Mbox 2 mini.

After saying all that, I’m not a gearhead. The big difference comes down to quality of the soundcard, and the Mbox 2 mini has far superior sound to the card I put in a PC. Gear out of the way, despite being in a closet I was still getting a bit of reverb and a not-quite deadened sound to the room. A tension rod with one of Andy’s old portrait backdrops hung with clip hooks did the trick, and it also is easily moved out of the way when we need the closet to just be a closet.

I’ve updated my “36 in 365″ goals list post for my studio, I’d say it’s optimized for sound and the layout works nicely. I’ll post pictures soon.